Spero Lucas has a new line of work. Since he returned home after serving in Iraq, he has been doing special investigations for a defence attorney. He's good at it, and he has carved out a niche: recovering stolen property, no questions asked. His cut is 40%. A high-profile crime boss who has heard o[...]
For Joey Recevo and Pete Karras, two kids from one of Washington's rougher neighborhoods, the easiest work to find after the war is all criminal--providing a little muscle for a local boss. But Karras is soft on his fellow immigrants, and the boss can't let his mob get soft, so one of his boys gives[...]
Gus Ramone is "good police," a former Internal Affairs investigator now working homicide for the city's Violent Crime branch. His new case involves the death of a local teenager named Asa whose body has been found in a local community garden.The murder unearths intense memories of a case Ramone work[...]
"THE DOUBLE is as good as it gets. The writing is taut, the violence is graphic, and the characters are so well-drawn that they step off the page and into yourlife." - Associated Press
Every man has his dark side. Spero Lucas confronts his own in the most explosive thriller yet from one of Ameri[...]
The time is 1976. Captain Beefheart's on the eight-track. The hot new superfly flick King Suckerman is coming to neighborhood theaters. And Washington, D.C., is a hotbed of drugs and racial tension--an easy place to turn a wrong corner and land in a whole lot of trouble.
That's what [...]
The boys are back in town
Frank Farrow is a natural-born killer. Roman Otis is a fine-looking crooner who does his killing on the side. On a hot D.C. afternoon Frank and Roman hit a pizza shop called May's. When the hit was over, four people were executed. A cop was shot. A boy was dead. [...]
From "the poet laureate of the D.C. crime world" ("Esquire") comes this powerful early novel, now available in paperback for the first time--the noirish story of how a Washington, D.C., liquor store heist shows a drifter named Constantine what it means to be a shoedog. Martin's Press.[...]
Derek Strange and Terry Quinn are ex-cops turned private detectives in Washington, DC. Hired to investigate the death of an off-duty black police officer at the hands of a white policeman, Strange and Quinn are faced with the institutionalised racism of the nation's most poorly trained and dangerou[...]
Derek Strange and Terry Quinn, the team of investigators who made their bestselling debut in Right As Rain, are hired to find a fourteen-year-old girl who's run away from her home in the suburbs. It's easy for Strange and Quinn to learn that the girl is now working as a prostitute in one of D.C.'s m[...]
Frank Farrow is a natural-born killer. Roman Otis is a fine-looking crooner who does his killing on the side. On a hot D.C. afternoon Frank and Roman hit a pizza shop called May's. When the hit was over, four people were executed. A cop was shot. A boy was dead. And when the sirens stopped wailing a[...]
Lorenzo Brown is fresh out of the clink. The former drug enforcer has vowed to go straight and found himself a job as an officer for the Humane Society. He patrols downtown DC looking for ill-treated pets - but in the course of his day repeatedly comes face-to-face with his old life. Rachel Lopez is[...]
It's the spring of 1968, the sun shines down on an America on the brink of civil war. Martin Luther King preaches in vain for non-violent protest and the ghettos of Washington DC seethe with anger. In the middle of this powder-keg is thrust a young black cop, barely out of school himself. Derek Stra[...]
They never found the killer. All they knew, back in the winter of 1985, was that someone was taking teenagers, killing them and leaving their abused bodies in public parks. Three victims in all, with no link between them except a oddity of their names. They read the same back-to-front - Otto, Ava an[...]
Private Investigator Derek Strange and his partner, Terry Quinn, are running a PI business in the seedy underbelly of Washington DC are approached by a young man asking them to find his girlfriend who has gone missing. And so Strange and Quinn find her. Just another day? Not quite. In the grimy unde[...]
Hidden beneath the floorboards in a house he's remodeling, Christopher Flynn discovers something very tempting-and troubling. Summoning every bit of maturity and every lesson he's learned the hard way, Chris leaves what he found where he found it and tells his job partner to forget it, too. Knowing [...]
Wilton Cooper is at a drive-in movie when he notices the ugly white boy walk into the projection booth. Seconds later a gun goes off, perfectly timed to coincide with the movie's noisy climax. When the boy struts coolly out, blood sprayed on the front of his cheap print shirt, Cooper knows he's foun[...]
This is the third novel in the DC Quartet, the most explosive contribution to crime fiction since Ellroy's LA Quartet. 'King Suckerman', the previous volume, was short-listed for the 1998 CWA Golden Dagger Award.
It's 1986 and Washington DC is being torn apart by the cocaine trade. Th[...]
Brand new stories by: George Pelecanos, James Grady, Kenji Jasper, Jim Beane, Jabari Asim, Ruben Castaneda, James Patton, Norman Kelley, Jennifer Howard, Richard Currey, Lester Irby, and others. Mystery sensation Pelecanos pens the lead story and edits this groundbreaking collection of stories detai[...]
Svarta själar fortsätter där Ett djävulskt pris (2003) slutade. Derek Strange och Terry Quinn åtar sig nya uppdrag, men dras denna gång in i fall som får ödesdigra konsekvenser även för dem personligen. Derek Strange anlitas av den inflytelserika gangstern Granville Oliver för att finna [...]
Christopher Wilson, en svart polisman i civila kläder, har i samband med en förvirrad situation på gatan skjutits ihjäl av en vit polisman. Wilsons mor, Leona, söker upp privatdetektiven Derek Strange för att återupprätta sin döde sons heder. Internutredningen visade nämligen att han me[...]
djävulskt pris (2003) slutade. Derek Strange och Terry Quinn åtar sig nyauppdrag, men dras denna gång in i fall som får ödesdigra konsekvenser även för dem personligen. Derek Strange anlitas av den inflytelserika gangstern Granville Oliver för att finna en[...]
Lorenzo Brown, villkorligt frigiven efter att ha åkt dit för langning, är stolt över sitt jobb som inspektör för Djurskyddsföreningen. Han åker runt i Washingtons slum och letar efter misskötta hundar - utsvultna, smutsiga eller tränade att döda. Känslan av att kunna vara till någon nyt[...]
En mördad tonåring som hittas i en av Washingtons koloniträdgårdar väcker ett gammalt fal till liv i kriminalinspektör Gus Ramones minne. Som nyutexaminerad polis arbetade han och hans kollega Doc Holiday tillsammans med den legendariska kriminalaren T.C. Cook i en ut[...]
En mördad tonåring som hittas i en av Washingtons koloniträdgårdar väcker ett gammalt fal till liv i kriminalinspektör Gus Ramones minne. Som nyutexaminerad polis arbetade han och hans kollega Doc Holiday tillsammans med den legendariska kriminalaren T.C. Cook i en utredning av en serie mord, [...]
Svarta själar fortsätter där Ett djävulskt pris (2003) slutade.
Derek Strange och Terry Quinn åtar sig nya uppdrag, men dras denna gång in i fall som får ödesdigra konsekvenser även för dem personligen. Derek Strange anlitas av den inflytelserika gangstern Granville Oliver fö[...]